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☆ Drone deliveries, slow to take flight, come to Silicon Valley
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Mike Gagliardi | Mike Gagliardi Is A Researcher With The Nbc News Network Desk. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Samaras said his research indicated that drone delivery, compared to fossil-fuel truck delivery, consumes up to 90% less energy per package. Zipline, the world’s largest drone delivery service, is among the companies that have received that permission in several states. The company plans to go nationwide with drone delivery in 2026. A spokesperson for Amazon’s Prime Air drone-delivery program told NBC News it hopes to be delivering 500 million packages per year by the end of this decade. The FAA told NBC News that there are currently more than 383,000 drones registered for commercial purposes.

Persons: Samaras, ” Eric Watson, Watson, Yanfeng Ouyang, “, ” Ouyang, ” Organizations: Federal Aviation Administration, NBC, Amazon’s Prime, FAA, NBC News, University of Illinois Locations: Arkansas, Utah, Dallas, University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign

☆ BofA economist discusses China's first-quarter GDP
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBofA economist discusses China's first-quarter GDPMiao Ouyang, Greater China economist at BofA Global Research, discusses what's behind her forecast for China's first-quarter gross domestic product.

Persons: China's, Miao Ouyang Organizations: BofA Global Research Locations: China

☆ What to Know About Life-Saving ECPR
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Helen Ouyang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

As an emergency doctor, I know that it’s incredibly rare for standard resuscitation protocols including CPR to revive patients brought to the hospital in cardiac arrest. Survival rates after cardiac arrest have hardly improved in decades, so when I heard about these statistics from one program in Minnesota, I was very eager to visit it. Here is what to know about ECPR and its availability. In the E.R., doctors will continue with chest compressions and administer other standard resuscitation measures. When this high-tech treatment is used during cardiac arrest, the intervention is called ECPR.

Locations: Minnesota

☆ The Race to Reinvent CPR
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Helen Ouyang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Until that Thursday in August 2022, John Sauer’s most pressing health concern had been his seasonal allergies. She told her daughter to call 911, and the two women struggled to get Sauer, who is very tall and rather bulky, onto the ground to start CPR. She had taught CPR classes, but she had never done it on a real person. Up and down, up and down, her fingers interlocked, hand over hand. Here I am doing chest compressions, she thought, and this CPR is never going to wake him up.

Persons: John Sauer’s, Kristen Waters, Waters, Sauer

☆ What Makes a Top Runway Model in 2024?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Elizabeth Paton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There is one model who walked in more fashion shows than any other in 2023. Yilan Hua is from China. Ms. Hua, 24, is the leading face of a new generation of popular Chinese models that includes He Cong, Chu Wong and Ying Ouyang — despite a family death this season that kept her off the runway for much of Paris Fashion Week. So why is the industry so taken with her, and what does her ascent reflect about the importance of China to luxury fashion? “Yilan doesn’t necessarily embody the traditional beauty standards revered by Chinese audiences,” Ms. Zhang wrote in an email.

Persons: Yilan Hua, outpacing, América, Victoria Fawole, Chanel, Fendi, Michael Kors, Stella McCartney, Christian Dior, Hua, Chu Wong, Ying Ouyang —, Margaret Zhang, “, ” Ms, Zhang, ” Organizations: Cannes Film, Vogue, Vogue China Locations: China, Venezuela, Nigeria, Paris

☆ Opinion | The Big #MeToo Moment for Doctors Is Finally Here
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Helen Ouyang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Now the edifice may finally be cracking: The #MeToo movement is picking up pace in the medical profession. Dr. Hadden was an obstetrician-gynecologist who was first arrested when a patient called the police and reported that he had licked her genitals during an exam. Though I was working at the medical center while the accusations unfurled, I wasn’t aware of them until more recently. Even after Dr. Hadden was found guilty, Columbia did not notify all of his patients about his behavior. On Nov. 23, the one-year look-back window closes for past patients to sue Dr. Hadden and the medical center.

Persons: it’s, Darius Paduch, Zhi Alan Cheng, Derrick Todd, Brigham, Cheng, Todd, Dr, Robert Hadden, Hadden, Newman’s, Aja Newman, Newman, Dr . Hadden, HIPAA, . Hadden Organizations: Presbyterian Queens Hospital, Harvard, Women’s, Columbia, New York Locations: New York, NewYork, Columbia, Sinai

☆ Bariatric Surgery at 16
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Helen Ouyang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

It’s the exact opposite.” The number of teenagers who underwent bariatric surgery more than doubled nationwide between 2010 and 2017 and continues to rise. Seeley emphasizes that weight loss doesn’t simply result from a newly tiny stomach that limits how much people can eat. The crucial roles instead seem to be played by bile acids and antimicrobial peptides in the gut, each of which increase markedly after surgery; Seeley is still sorting out the exact mechanisms of their influence. “Why bariatric surgery works so well is because you’re changing lots of things at the same time,” Seeley says. Most important, bariatric surgery seems to reset, to a lower bound, the body weight that the brain tries to maintain.

Persons: Rodriguez, “, ”, Alexandra, ” Gabriela, ” Rodriguez, Thomas Inge, Randy Seeley, Seeley, ” Seeley, “ I’m, ” Inge, I’d, “ We’ve Organizations: Teen, National Institutes of Health, Lurie Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan Locations: United States, Chicago

For many, we may be the first health care workers they meet at their most dismal hour. But it’s also what makes our workplace so dangerous, more than ever, and jeopardizes the emergency care that everyone receives. Last year one of my patients was on the phone, lamenting about how long he had been in the emergency room. When I turned to look at him, he yelled a racial epithet before hurling a desktop computer into the area where doctors and nurses sit. The health workers at the University of Vermont Health Network in the video above share examples of this.

Persons: “, —, it’s, hasn’t Organizations: of Emergency Physicians, University of Vermont Health Network

☆ Taiwan celebrates linguistic diversity at annual music awards
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/10] Julia Peng poses for pictures at the 34th Golden Melody Awards ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan July 1, 2023. REUTERS/Ann WangTAIPEI, July 2 (Reuters) - Taiwan celebrated linguistic diversity at the Golden Melody Awards late Saturday with big wins for singers who primarily sing in Mandarin, at one of the most prestigious entertainment events in the Chinese-speaking world. Cheng, speaking in Mandarin, thanked the Taiwanese language for "teaching me how to bow my head and slow down". In the indigenous language category, the Paiwan singers Kasiwa and Matzka rapped and sang in their native tongue, with Kasiwa getting the prestigious jury award. "Here, no matter what language everyone uses - Taiwanese, Hakka, indigenous languages, Mandarin, English and Japanese, - they can all sing freely, which also brings us together."

Persons: Julia Peng, Ann Wang, Enno Cheng, Peng, Cheng, Kasiwa, Matzka, Tsai Ing, Ouyang Fei Fei, Ouyang, Ben Blanchard, William Mallard Organizations: REUTERS, Facebook, Thomson Locations: Taipei, Taiwan, Ann Wang TAIPEI, China, Japan

☆ Taylor Swift is an unlikely public transit icon
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Taylor Swift, public transit savior? Public transit systems across the United States are getting a much-needed, if temporary, boost from Taylor Swift fans flooding trains, buses and subways to her sold-out Eras Tour. As transit agencies scramble to recover from the pandemic, transit experts say all those Swifies taking mass transit offer lessons for policymakers on how to adapt to the post-pandemic world. Philadelphia’s SEPTA system and New Jersey Transit also got a boost from concertgoers taking mass transit to Swift shows. But public transit agencies still have yet to fully recover from the impact of the pandemic.

Persons: New York CNN — Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift’s, Swift, Raymond James, Matthew Dickens, Taylor, ”, Jim Aloisi, Aloisi, Yanfeng Ouyang Organizations: New, New York CNN, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA, Soldier, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Mercedes, Benz, SEPTA, New Jersey Transit, Swift, American Public Transportation Association, Public, MIT, Transportation, University of Illinois Locations: New York, United States, New Jersey, Pittsburgh , Minneapolis, Denver, Seattle, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign

October 2022 Wang Linfang,92, molecular biologist Four members of China’s two most prestigious academic institutions died in October – in line with the average in recent years. October 2022 Wang Linfang,92, molecular biologist Four members of China’s two most prestigious academic institutions died in October – in line with the average in recent years. Zhang Guocheng, 91 Zhao Zisen, 90, developed China’s first practical optical fiber Tang Hongxiao, 91 The obituaries began accumulating. October 2022 Wang Linfang,92, molecular biologist Four members of China’s two most prestigious academic institutions died in October – in line with the average in recent years. October 2022 Wang Linfang,92, molecular biologist Four members of China’s two most prestigious academic institutions died in October – in line with the average in recent years.

☆ How retail companies are reducing friction in online and offline transactions
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-26 | by ( Jeremy Goldman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

And consumers have been moving toward demanding more frictionless payment methods across online and offline channels. For some time now, consumers have been moving toward demanding more frictionless payment methods across online and offline channels. Ecommerce retailers, not to be outdone, are finding ways to improve their transactions as well. Data suggests adults plan to continue to use touchless payment methods after the pandemic is over. One of the ways brands and retailers are working to reduce ecommerce friction is providing more payment methods at checkout.

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